Tag: Sebastian Silva

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #95. Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun

Rotting in the Sun Before sliding into television (he has two projects in development with Ari Aster and the A24 folks), Sebastián Silva will be...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #46. Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun

Rotting in the Sun There is no biding his time for this Chilean filmmaker and there is no remaining in one spot either. Depending on...

Interview: Sebastián Silva – TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Over the past nine years, writer/director Sebastián Silva has completed his checklist, by premiering a film in all five categories of the Sundance narrative feature...

Interview: Christopher Abbott | Sebastián Silva’s TYREL

Christopher Abbott is an actor known for his roles as Charlie Cattalo in Girls and as the titular character in the critically-acclaimed James White...

Interview: Jason Mitchell – Sebastián Silva’s TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Jason Mitchell first caught the mainstream eye in 2015 for his critically-acclaimed performance as an ill-fated rapper Eazy-E in the NWA biopic Straight Outta...

Interviews: Phillip Ettinger & Max Born + World Preem of Sebastián Silva’s TYREL

Along with actors Christopher Abbott (watch the interview) and Jason Mitchell (watch that interview), just prior to the world premiere at the Library Center...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America

As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...

2018 Sundance Film Festival: Panos Cosmatos’ “Mandy” Leads Nicholas Bell’s Top 10

While Sundance 2018 has already been deemed a non-event in the realm of acquisitions, it’s a trend perhaps better explained by an industry in...

2018 Sundance Film Festival: Bing Liu’s “Minding The Gap” Leads Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10

Some have complained that Sundance 2018 was a lackluster festival: largely devoid of masterpieces—with few blockbuster sales. I have a different gripe. As always,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #4. Sebastián Silva’s TYREL

Tyrel You can wager on the cinema offerings of the Brooklyn based, Santiago born Sebastián Silva to be bold, the comedy to be subversive, and rather...

2018 Sundance Film Festival: Eric Lavallee’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

Composer Keegan DeWitt has been dethroned. The reigning, heavy weight champion of Park City (who usually arrives with a half dozen offerings) loses out...

2018 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

Over the past few years, Sundance has arguably shunted most of its noteworthy titles off into its sidebars, whether they be prestigious premieres from...

2018 Sundance Film Festival: Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films

Before we plunge into my top five, here are some items that are also high up on my most see list. From this year’s...

Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections

Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel

What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...

The Conversation: Producer Christine Vachon

Not only a trailblazer but continual champion of queer film, producer Christine Vachon continues to be one of the most prolific risk takers in...

Sebastian Silva Sets Sail on “Captain Dad” with Will Ferrell, Catherine Keener & Michael Cera

Moving from quirky micro dark comedies to bigger budgeted quirky dark comedies, Variety reports that Sebastian Silva will begin 7th feature film on a...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction

As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernal/Kashyap/Khan/Silva/Sono/Wasikowska’s Madly

Not your run-of-the-mill future film festival selection, filmmakers Gael García Bernal (Déficit), Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby), Shion Sono (Suicide Club), Natasha Khan...

Top 3 Critics’ Picks: Guy Maddin/Evan Johnson, Sebastián Silva, Hou Hsiao-Hsien in Theatres This October

IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the movie-going theatre dilemma: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month?...

Love Thy Neighbor: The Orchard to Support “Nasty Baby” During Postpartum Phase

Deemed "unfit" for TIFF, Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby is the latest addition to The Orchard's ever expanding Sundance family grove. IndieWIRE reports that The...

Sundance ’15: Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Sean Baker & Matt Sobel Populate NEXT Section

Last year's NEXT section introduced us to new breed of filmmakers in Desiree Akhavan, Sydney Freeland, Madeleine Olnek, Ana Lily Amirpour, Malik Vitthal and...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby

The Chilean filmmaker locked two premieres at Sundance back in '13 with Magic Magic and Crystal Fairy and later that fall, began lensing Nasty...

2014 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: 46th Directors’ Fortnight

Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine...